| SCHEDULE | TOPICS | READ | DUE |
| WEEK 1 | Introductions
Defining the Field |
What is Digital Humanities?
Digital Humanities Projects and Skills Stephen Ramsay. “The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; or What You Do with a Million Books.” Pastplay. 2014. |
Technology Survey
Register with CUNY Academic Commons Register a Twitter Account |
| WEEK 2 | Print Culture and Pre-Digital Technologies | Stephen Fry, The Machine that Made Us (watch all 5 parts!)
Compare the paper and vellum versions of the Gutenberg Bible [in class] Learn about the Codex Seraphinianus [in class] Elizabeth Eisenstein, “Some Features of Print Culture” from The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe [requires log in] |
Blog #1: “Dead” Technologies Video
Consider attending NYCDHWEEK |
| WEEK 3
Wednesday, February 15 (Monday Schedule)
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Hacking, Remixing, Building
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“Bloomsberg U. Undergraduate ‘Manifesto’ on Digital Humanities.” 4Humanities.org. N.d. | Blog #2: The Power of Remix Culture
Interview Questions |
| WEEK 4
Monday, February 20
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No classes: College Closed | No classes: College Closed | No classes: College Closed |
| WEEK 5
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Maps, Graphs, Trees | Look through http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
Franco Moretti. “Graphs” (3-33)
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Blog #3: Visual Rhetoric |
| WEEK 6 | The Sound and the (Digital) Fury | Disciplinary Technologies Presentations | Presentations |
| WEEK 7 |
Mapping Literature
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Whitney: poem 1 and poem 2
Moretti, “Maps” (35-64) |
Google Earth Installs and mapping around Blog #5: (Pre)-Digital Maps and Places
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| WEEK 8 | Concrete and Virtual Worlds | Whitney, poem 3 and poem 4 | Blog #6: Whitney drafts |
| WEEK 9
Monday, March 27 |
Presentations | Whitney Presentations
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Blog #7: Evaluating Academic Twitter |
| WEEK 10 | Back to Print | Look through Book Traces and The Art of Google Books
Lauren Klein, “The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings,” American Literature 85, no. 4 (December 1, 2013): 661–88 |
Blog #8: Material Culture |
| WEEK 11
Monday, April 10 Spring Break |
NO CLASSES: SPRING BREAK! | NO CLASSES: SPRING BREAK! | NO CLASSES: SPRING BREAK! |
| WEEK 12
Thursday, April 20 (Monday Schedule) |
Early Modern Poetry | Voyant Workshop
Tottel’s Miscellany: Introduction; #6 (p.13), #11 (p.16), #39 (pg. 49), #42 (pg. 51), #96 (pg. 96) |
Blog #9: The rhetoric of textual editing |
| WEEK 13
Monday, April 24 |
Circulating and Deconstructing Poetry | Tottel’s Miscellany cont.
Twitterature, #TwitterFiction, and Short Stories (3 links) Bring your device (laptop/tablet) if you have one |
Blog #10: What is (Digital) Literature?
Email link to your Commons Site |
| WEEK 14 | Defining DH | Mark Sample. “The Digital Humanities is Not About Building, It’s About Sharing.” SampleReality.com. 25 May 2011.
Sign up for meeting time by Sunday, May 7 |
Completed Commonplace Book Draft due May 6 |
| WEEK 15
Monday, May 8
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Conferences | One-one-one Meetings and Peer Feedback
Sign up for meeting time by Sunday, May 7 |
Blog #12: Thoughts for Remix and Peer Reviews
Revisions to Commonplace Book due May 13 |
| WEEK 16
Monday, May 15 |
Audience Consideration | Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. “‘So the Colors Cover the Wires’: Interface, Aesthetics, and Usability,” in A Companion to Digital Humanities, edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth, 523–42.
Jesse James Garrett, Elements of User Experience |
Blog #13: Revisions/ Online Persona |
| WEEK 17
Monday, May 22 |
Did we DH? | Final Exam/Presentations | Final Exam
Commonplace Reflection |
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